Contact: Christian Basi
BasiC@missouri.edu
573-882-4430
University of Missouri-Columbia

Shibu Jose, University of Missouri-Columbia

Caption: Jose has received a $5.4 million grant from the US Department of Energy to determine how non-food biofuel crops, such as switchgrass, grow in marginal land along the floodplains, where most crops cannot thrive.

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